Scaled Composites - Virgin Group to licence technology to develop world's first commercial space tourism operator

This is the news I've been waiting to hear for most of my life. Starting out at 190,000, I'd imagine that a small bit of competition will push the price for a trip to orbit down to around the price of a luxury car in short order. Someday I'm going to outer space!

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

Nifty...meta-polling results on the web (with pretty map)

NASA's Newest Foe: Hurricane Frances

Now THAT would be a very bad thing...

The world's tiniest windmill...sort of

Blow on a carbon nanotube set at an angle, and you'll create electricity. Glad somebody thought to try it.